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From: mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Newgroup Proposal: comp.protocols.iso
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 11:51:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 11:51:08 1987
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In article <15927@gatech.gatech.edu> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:
>The group comp.std.internat has existed for over 2 years for precisely
>the kind of discussion you are suggesting.  The group has hardly been
>used since its (rather noisy) creation.  I'd suggest you use that for
>ISO discussions.

Gulp! Spaf seems to be chiding those of us who made all the noise about 
comp.std.internat, which, as I recall, he didn't see much need for.
Well, we deserve it.

I have tried a couple of times to stimulate some discussion, but haven't 
gotten much action. Well, I am still interested in the topics (my customers
in France and elsewhere give me no choice), but I am almost resigned
to not getting anything from the net. If anybody is interested in what 
is in System V, Release 3.1, I do have the source code sitting around.
It isn't much, though - the one-page blurb AT&T sends out pretty
much covers it.

X/OPEN seems to have settled on HP's ideas as being the most useful; now
we are trying to track down whether HP is actually pushing a product
to promote as a standard, or whether it is all internal (i.e., available
inside HP products only). Does anybody have further information?

Re: comp.protocols.iso - ISO provides standards for lots of things;
in the context it was mentioned, the potential group should perhaps
be called comp.protocols.osi. I don't fully agree that comp.std.internat
should be used for those discussions, but since *we* aren't using it....

Mats Wichmann